Garage.



YPATENTED OCT. 9, 1906. c. s. KELLOGG.

GARAGE. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 30. M06.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SNOW KELLOGG, OF MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY. GARAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.v

Patented Oct. 9, -1 906.

Application filed July 30,1906. Serial Np. 328,444.

. To 00% whom it may concern:

.the construction of garages containing many small rooms or compartmentssuitable to hold automobiles and in means to be used in movingautomobiles to and from the compartments.

The invention consists of a garage in which rows of compartments, anelevator, and a carriage are combined, as will be hereinafter described.

- On the accompanying sheets of drawings, on which likereference-numerals designate like parts in different views, Figure 1 isa plan of one of the lofts of a garage embodying the invention, and Fig.2 an end view of the interior of the first story and of the lower partof the loft immediately over it.

The main object of the invention is to render it feasible to soconstruct a garage that all of the floor of each story above the firstexcept a strip about eighteen feet wide extending from end to end of thefloor and space required for an elevator may be utilized for the storageof automobiles in small oblong compartments each affording room for oneautomobile only.

- Another object is to enable automobiles to be conveyed from the firstfloor of the garage to the compartments-above and thence back to thefirs floor by moving them onlyin straight directions, so that risk ofinjuring their steering mechanism may be avoided. 4

The invention is shown embodied in a garage which. maybe built on a lotabout sixty feet wide, the sides 1 and 2 and ends 3 there may be anofiice, a space where auto- -m obiles maybe allowed to stand forshorteriods just after they enter and before they eave the garage, and aplacewhere they may be washed. Next to one of the side walls is an elevator6, whose floor is preferably oblong, its shorter edges 7 and 8 beingparallel to the walls 1 and 2. I The elevatoris shown in Fig. 2 with itsfloor even with, a platform partitions forming part'of a truck which ison the second floor 9 of the building. A track comprising rails 10,which may be fastened to ties 11, lying on or embedded in the floor 9 orwhich may be otherwise attached to the floor,

extends from end to end of the building, the

rails 10 being on opposite sides of and equally distant from a planewhich is parallel to the walls 1 and 2 and which cuts the walls 3 and 14 midway between their ends. The wheels 12 of the truck, which areflanged like common car-wheels, are mounted on the rails 10, and thetruck is movable along the track. The platform 13 of the truck ispreferably about eight feet wide and at least eighteen feet long, itsends 14 and 15 being parallel to the walls land 2. These dimensions aresuch that a large automobile may stand on the platform withoutprojecting over its edge on either side or at either end.

Each of the oblong compartments is preferably about eight feet wide andfrom eighteen to twenty feet long. One end. of each compartment isformed by one of the side walls of the building and the other end by apartition 16 or 17. These partitions are close to vertical planescontaining the edges 14 and 15 of the platform 13, so that between thepartitions l6 and 17 a passage eighteen feet wide is provided, fromwhich access may be had to each compartment of either row. One sidewallof each corner-compartment is an end wall of the building, its otherside wall being a partition 18, and both side walls of each of the othercompartments are partitions 18. .In that end of each compartment whichis nextto the passage is a verticallysliding door 19, although the doorsin the partition 17 and some of those in the partition 16 are not shown.

The floor of the passage slopes from the 16 and 17, its surfaces 20 and21 forming a shallow channel which extends from end to end of thebuilding under the track and which is lower at one end than at theother, and in the floor of each compartment is a channel 22,. extendingthe whole length of the compartment and communicating with the mainchannel in the floor ofthe' passage. The bed of each of the channels 22'descends from the back of the compartment to the'main channel, asindicated by dotted lines in 2, so that liquid will flow washed and thentaken to t are level with the top of the platform of the truck and eachof which is about two feet wide. The bed of the main channel and thefloorsof the compartments, including the beds of the channels 22, may bemade of suitable lastic materialsuch as concrete, for examp e. The lowerend of the main channel may be connected with a sewer or a tank.

Immediately after an automobile which has been in use enters the arageit will be e compartment assigned to it. It will be pushed on theelevator from the main floor, raised by means of the elevator until itsfloor is at the level of the floor of the compartment and of theplatform of the truck, pushed from the elevator on the truck, moved withand on the truck to the door of the compartment, unless the compartmentis directly opposite the elevator-shaft, and pushed from the truck intothe compartment. If the compartment is direot y opposite theelevator-shaft, the automobile Will be pushed from the elevator acrossthe platform of the truck into the compartment, it being unnecessary inthis case to move the truck away from the elevator. All this will bedone without subjecting the steering mechanism to any injurious strain,for the machine will be turned only on the main floor, where there isplenty of room. It

, is obvious that by reversinithe series of acts above described anautomo ile may be taken om any compartment to the main floor.

The wheels of the automobile will stand on the surfaces 23 and 24 of thecompartmentfioor, and oil which drips from the machinery will fall intothe channel 22. Water dri ping from the wheels and sides of the vehicIewill fall on the surfaces 23 and 24 andtend to keep them clean. If astrip of the main floor connecting the elevator with the lace where theautomobiles are washed, an the floor of the elevator and the platform ofthe truck are kept clean, as they easily may be b I allowing a ly, thetires of'the machines will not get spattered or smeared with oil afterthe mac ines are washed or while they are standing in the compartments.It is proposed to lock the doors of the compartments and to allow anautomobile to be taken out of its compartment only when it is called forby its owner, or a person authorized by him to get 1t,.and to keep it incondition to be put into use at a moment s notice. The automobiles maybe washed in the compartments as well as on the main floor of thegarage.

It will be seen that large automobiles, which are about seventeen feetlong, could not be pushed'or drawn endwise along a passage equal inwidth to the passage shown and described and turned from it into one ofthe compartments, and that consequently this invention enables a muchlarger part of the floor of a building to be utilized for the water toflow on them occasion-' A garage containing the invention may includetwo or more lofts each constructed like that which has been describedand havof the plot on ing in the passage a truck or carriage to be 7 5operated in connection with the elevator for conveying automobiles toand from the compartments of each row. Although the. elevator-sh'aft isshown in one corner of the building, it might be in a differentlocation,

between the ends of either row of compart-' ments. A carriage difleringin form from the truck shown and described might be substituted for thistruck, and some kind of driving mechanism might be connected to thecarriage- Various other features, of the structure and a paratus shownand described may be c anged, and some of them maybe omitted withoutaffecting the invenvention which is herein claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a garage the combination of compartments arrangedin two rows witha pas- 5 sage extending between and from end to end of said rows, anelevator affording access to the passage from one side thereof, and acarriage including a platform extending across the passage, the carriagebeing movable I00 from end to end of the passage and affording means forconveying automobiles from the elevator to the compartments of bothrows.

2. In a garagethe combination of oblong compartments arranged in tworows with a, 10 5 passa e extending between and from end to end 0 saidrows, one end of each compartment being next to said passage, anelevator affording access to the passage, and a carriage including aplatform extending across no the passage, the carriage being movablefrom end to end of the passage and affording means for conveyingautomobiles from the elevator to the compartments of both rows.

3: In a garage the combination of oblong compartments arranged in tworows with a passa e extending between and from end to end 0 said rows,one end of each compartment being next to said passage, an elevatoraffording access to the passa e, and a carno riage including an oblong patform whose length nearly equals the width of the passage and whosewidth is substantially that of one of the compartments, the carriagebein movable from end to end affording means for conveying automobilesfrom the elevator to the compartments of both rows.

4. In a garage the combination of oblong compartments arranged in tworows with a 1 0 V of the passage an 12 5 end of said rows, one end ofeach compartment being next to said passage,an elevator affording accessto the passage from-one side thereof, the floor of the elevator beingoblong and one of its ends being next to the passage, and a carriageincluding an oblong platform whose length nearly equals the width of thepassage and Whose Width is substantiallyeth-at of one of thecompartments, 10 --the carriage being movable from end to end of thepassage and affording means for conveying automobiles from the elevatorto the:

compartments ofboth rows. I

CHAS. SNOW KELLOGG. In presence of JOHN B. ELMENDORF, Enw. O. KANNOFSKY.

